Alfred I. Du Pont and His Family.

Business History | October 1, 1991| | Copyright

Robert F. Burk, The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts American National Politics, 1925-1940 (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp.xi + 27.95[pounds] David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith, Jr., Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R & D, 1902-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xx + 756. 30 [pounds]) Andrew Frazier Wall, Alfred I. Du Pont and His Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp.xii + 685. 22.50 [pounds]).

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